CALLUM UPTON'S GAME JAM #2

THEME: Hello darkness, my old friend

Callum Upton & Game Jam Community Discord: https://discord.gg/4Tkremrx3x

This jam is to be friendly for everyone and is for anyone who has no experience to professional skill levels. This is a non-competitive jam and is meant for a fun and  enjoyable learning experience.

DISCLAIMER: This game jam has no connection  to Callum Upton's project Nightmare World, this jam is for the community's enjoyment & entertainment.

HEALTH WARNING: Do not over scope! DIVIDE your days to plan, build, and polish. ALWAYS have time for polish. Avoid stress by proper planning!

HOW TO JAM!

Click JOIN and that is it!

Do not start work on your project until the THEME is revealed, but you can prepare for it.

Once the THEME is revealed, you may begin work and submit your project before the DEAD LINE.

A RATING PERIOD will begin once the jam is over. Everyone who submitted and who is a contributor to a submitted project will play, rate, and can provide useful feedback to all other submissions.

The WINNERS will be announced in the Discord and Displayed on the ITCH PAGE!

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Reminder: You can join our discord and get help, pair up or make a team, and even get a better understanding of how game jams work including how to properly make a game for a jam to avoid over scoping and stress!

Leaving Feedback: feedback is to provide useful insights stating the problems in the project and could provide  solutions  on their work to have them better themselves as a student developer and improve their skills for the next jam and/or projects. Saying someone's project sucks or ranting on the state of the project with nothing valuable for the Submitter(s) to read is not feedback,. Anyone with repeated offenses of will be banned from this jam and possibly future jams held.  This jam is beginner friendly while bringing new people into the scene and for others to improve their skills.

RANKING 

This  game jam should be ranked based on creativity of the developer and entertainment for the user. The basic 3 are to make sure it follows the THEME of the jam, it is FUN for the user, and to check if the GAME DESIGN fits well with together.

- THEME: If the project follows the theme.

- FUN: Is the project fun to play for the user.

- GAME DESIGN: Does the design of the project make sense together.

RULES

-  Submissions must have been started and made ONLY WITHIN the time frame of the game jam submission period. 

- You can USE ASSETS. Using unlicensed(stolen or pirated) assets will disqualify you from the jam. You are allowed to use assets you bought or acquired for free.

- Teams are allowed with  no limit to size. You can be a part of more than 1 team.  1 person on the team can only submit, all contributors with an ITCH account MUST be added as contributors for submissions. Any project not crediting its contributors will be removed if refusing to credit. Credit must be shown on the project's ITCH.IO page.

- All game engines are allowed to make your game, but anything needing to be printed is not recommended. Platform-based engines such as Roblox Studio or Dreams are NOT ALLOWED.

- No racist, discriminating, and hatred of any kind. Nothing considered highly graphic for young children.